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A co-worker of mine (Susan Bartholow) mentioned a neat feature in MBUnit today and I thought it was share-worthy. :)

First, what is MBUnit? MBUnit is a .NET testing framework. You can use it for testing any of the .NET family of languages. C#, VB, etc. Here's a short tutorial.

Remember, a testing framework with "unit" in the name isn't just useful for unit testing! ;) The various XUnit frameworks are great for functional and integration tests as well.

Second, Susan's tip about the decorator. (A decorator is a feature added to the test framework.) She found a decorator in MBUnit called ThreadedRepeat.

Here's a short description of ThreadedRepeat from the Peli's Farm blog

In MbUnit, other decorators are available. Here I describe two of those:
RepeatAttribute and ThreadedRepeatAttribute. RepeatAttribute will make the
execution of the test repeated the desired number of times in the same thread
while ThreadedRepeatAttribute will launch simultaneously a desired number of
threads that will execute the method. RepeatAttribute create a sequence of
execution, ThreadedRepeatAttribute create a parallel execution.

    [Test]
    [Repeat(10)] // this will make the RepeatedTest executed 10 times
    public void RepeatedTest()
    { ... }

    [Test]
    [ThreadedRepeat(10)] // this will make the RepeatedTest executed in 10 concurent threads
    public void AmIThreadSake()
    { ... }
  

-Enjoy!

Jared